On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
On 2015-08-28 07:48:28 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote: > >Salesforce did something similar in their internal build, and TBH I do not > >find it a good idea. The basic problem is it's completely misleading to > >equate the last commit with the source you actually built from, because > >that might not have been an unmodified file set. > > Indeed. What I've done in an svn-based project is to build the stamp from > the Makefile basically when linking, that is really as late as possible. The > other good point is that svnversion adds 'M' for modified if the source tree > has uncommitted changes. > > Maybe such an approach could be used with git to have something reliable.
I've done the same using the output $(git describe --tags --dirty) - which will return something like REL9_5_ALPHA1-330-g8a7d070-dirty. That is, the last tag, the number of commits since, the commit hash, and whether the current build tree is dirty.
That looks handy. But, why isn't it alpha2 rather than alpha1 ?
